Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-12
CITY TRUSTEES.
Condition of the City Finances-Report oil
the Clerk of the Water Works.

Condition of the City Finances-ReporI OF
the Clerk of the Water Works.
The Board of City Trustees met IN regu-
lar session yesterday morning, all the menu
bers present.
John T. Stafford. Clerk of the Water
Works, made the following report Tor the
quarter ending April l, 1887
Collected and paid into treasury.......slls Ol %
Received for iio W
Total .l7s Is
Ex-City Treasurer ]. N. Porter rendered
the following report of the office tor the
month of March up to and including
April Sd:
Balance on hand March 1st ............Slla 20
Received March LIST to April Sd.....--.-. o,46o 40
rot., ...sl2O,777 20
Paid ont March LIST to April 3d........- 5l,fZe 10
Balance on hand April Sd...-...........sSs,ois So
Chief Engineer Of the Water Works, E.
H. Williams, reported the. enormous
amount of 20,03S,000 gallons of water
pumped during the week ending April
10Th. When il is taken into consideration
that " Old Pluvius" did our street-sprink-
ling most effectuaily last week without
calling upon the Holly, when we know
that no water could have been required for
other than kitchen purposes, those figures
stagger u.s. If, under those circumstances
it requires 100000 gallons of water to
supply our demands, what will be neces-
sary when warm weather approaches, the
streets becomes dusty, the many acres of
lawns, flower gardens and grass plots must
be irrigated It would seem that five times
as much would be required, and that means
100, 600 gallons weekly. This we know
is largely IN excess OF the demand, and
points suggestively to the fact that water
takers abuse their privileges and violate
the ordinance regulating the use of water.
Trustee Jones says he Is going to place
detectives out and will enforce an obedi-
ence to the ordinance regulating the use or
water, especially the one which says mo
person shall use or cause to be used any
city water for the purpose of irrigation, ex-
cept between the hours of from to P. NJ.
and from 5 to A. NJ, except at the City
Cemetery, the State Capitol and the Plaza"
Section 16 of the ordinance referred to
says: Every person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be pun
ished by a fine of not more than $500, and
may be imprisoned until the fine is salts
fed, at the rate of one days Imprisonment
for every dollar of fine"
A large number of bids were received for
street-sprinkling, some for six months,
others for year, in accordance with a re-
quest made by the Board. The bids are
much higher than was anticipated; the
boom seems to have attacked the con-
tractors all along the line. The amount
asked, while it does not quite reach the
sum total of all the revenue raised by the
CITY, is much in excess of that set apart for
shrinking purposes The entire matter
was taken under advisement. The con-
tractors say their bids are not larger than
that of last year, when the fact is taken
into consideration that the districts are
much larger. The Trustees want to add to
the size of the districts and still are I'M
willing TO increase the payments.
The contract for grading and improving
Twelfth street, frem Q to r, was awarded
to B. Labs, and Twenty-second street, from
II to l, to Antonio King.
Mayor Gregory moved that the Building
and Sanitary Inspector be instructed to
regulate the water supply of hotels restau-
rants, laundries and other places, and to
provide better means for the disposal of
waste water from such premises. The mo-
ton was adopted unanimously.
AT the suggestion of Trustee Jones, Mayor
Gregory was instructed by the Beard to
consult with the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, which controls the water front,
to see if something could not be done to
change its rotten and tumble-down condi-
ton and appearance. He was also in
structed to confer with the same parties rel
alive to the filling in of China slough. Both
these improvements are necessary to be
made.
After allowing large amount of bills,
Board adjourned.